Ep. 64: How to Help Autistic Kids Communicate
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What is the purpose of the new book *Ready Set Connect* and why is it important for autistic kids?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift for Autistic Kids.
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Hello, hello everyone. Welcome to Making the Shift for this very exciting episode. We get to be here with you tonight celebrating the release of my book. I can't even believe I'm saying that.
That is amazing. Yes. Leaps and bounds to get here. You have put so much work in. And I don't even know if you know this, but I was just checking on Amazon because it came out today. And it's the number one best seller in all of the categories that it was featured in. So within our field of communicative disorders and speech pathology and all sorts of things. So hats off to you. I am going to do my celebratory shot as hopefully all of the listeners and viewers out there will do. So let's do this. Let's cheers to Jesse.
Oh I was gonna say I hope you're ready to have a drink tonight because I'm ready for that.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm ready for Yes, very, very excited and grateful that we hit the bestseller categor in every category that we were in and it's climbing its way up Amazon. And I'm just so grateful. And you guys probably like you would know this if you put a book out there, but I had no idea how the process worked, which is I can't actually see. I don't know who's ordering it. I don't know when it's being ordered.
How did the author’s mindset shift change the way she wrote the book?
It like takes time to process and I'm not even notified. So it's all gonna be one big surprise to me. All I can see is the rankings, but just wanna say thank you to anyone who has ordered it and I'm just excited to get it out there. But um I was thinking back today on How it's like writing a book is often on a bucket list, you know? And I don't know if I've even told you this, Chris, but like I would sit down to try to write it over the years because it's always been on this big list of something I wanted to do. But I was like trying to be someone I'm not. I thought that in order to write a book, I had to ha be like a researcher and write it as if it was gonna be a textbook. And I would sit down and I would write for like 20 minutes and I would be so bored.
I couldn't even I wasn't even excited to read it. So then I had this complete mindset shift and I thought, you know what, I'm just gonna write the way that feels natural to me. And that's what I did.
Yeah, I love that. You were in the flow state. You have the book now published and and out for sale, which I just absolutely love that.
Yeah, and I was thinking back to When I started training therapists and I told this story recently on social media, but right when the pandemic hit. I just remember getting on social media at night and seeing everyone just freak out, like, how are we gonna work with our autistic students virtually? Like I have no idea what we're gonna do. And in this split second, I made this decision to post in this big group forum. If I go live talking about on teletherapy for autistic kids tomorrow, will you come? And I forget where I read this, but recently I read a book that said Some of the biggest decisions in your life are ones you put little to no thought into. And this was like such a prime example of that where I had absolutely no plan.
It was like nine PM and I said, I'm going live tomorrow.
What challenges did the pandemic create for therapists and how did they adapt with tele‑therapy?
And the next day I was sitting here in this office. I had my whiteboard. I was training therapists online from all over. And honestly, that's kind of like what snowballed into me now holding this book in my hand years later. It's just nuts how that happens.
Yeah, that's amazing though. I think it's so funny because isn't that how it usually works? Like even with social media, you the ones that seem to do really well and resonate the most are the ones that you spent three seconds doing. And it's like, how does that happen? But um yeah, so So I yeah, I want to know like the journey, the start, what what prompted I I love how you came up with that title. Um my god, that was torture. I'd be sp I would be spending three years just coming up with a title big note, but I don't like it, but
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the new book *Ready Set Connect* and why is it important for autistic kids?
0:08–1:52
2
How did the author’s mindset shift change the way she wrote the book?
1:52–4:07
3
What challenges did the pandemic create for therapists and how did they adapt with tele‑therapy?
4:07–5:54
4
Why does the author focus on regulation as the ‘one thing’ that unlocks communication?
5:54–7:23
5
How does the story of the two‑year‑old boy illustrate the power of connection over compliance?
7:23–9:53
6
What alternative, neuro‑affirming strategies does the book recommend instead of compliance‑based approaches?
9:53–11:56
7
What resources, bonuses, and tools are included with the *Ready Set Connect* purchase?
11:56–13:50
8
How can listeners support the mission and get the book and bonuses?
13:50–15:40
Speakers
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